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42 unusual facts about Romania


1981 New Zealand rugby union tour of Romania and France

The 1981 New Zealand rugby union tour of Romania and France was a series of ten matches played by the New Zealand national rugby union team (the All Blacks) in Romania and France in October and November 1981.

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The All Blacks won eight of the ten games, including the international match against Romania and both internationals against France.

Alro Slatina

Alro's primary aluminium facilities are located in Slatina and currently comprise a smelter and processing facilities, including a cast house, hot and cold rolling mills and an extrusion shop.

Alvin M. Owsley

In 1933 Owsley was rewarded for his efforts as a campaign speaker for Franklin D. Roosevelt with an appointment as the U.S. minister to Romania (1933–35).

Anton I. Arion

Anton I. Arion (1824 - 1897) was a Romanian politician who served as the Minister of Interior from August 12, 1868 until November 16, 1868.

Arsura River

Arsura River may refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Bogata River

Bogata River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Breaza River

Breaza River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Bridge of Flowers

Bridge of Flowers (event), an event in 1990 by demonstrators who advocated for the unification of Romania and Moldova.

Buciumeni River

Buciumeni River may refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Cacova River

Cacova River can refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Cleopa Ilie

The current patriarch, Daniel, was one of his disciples along with other current bishops.

Colnic River

Colnic River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

CSU Aurel Vlaicu Arad

CSU Aurel Vlaicu Arad is a Romanian semi-professional rugby union club from Arad, which will play the 2011 season in Romanian Rugby Championship, the first division of Romanian rugby.

Direcţia Generală de Protecţie şi Anticorupţie

Direcţia Generală de Protecţie şi Anticorupţie (General Directorate for Protection and Anti-corruption, DGPA; known before as Serviciul Intern de Protecţie şi Anticorupţie- Internal Service for Protection and Anti-corruption, SIPA) was the secret service of the Ministry of Justice of Romania.

Donald R. Heath

From 1920 to 1929, Heath held consular positions in Romania, Poland, and Switzerland.

Dwijen Mukhopadhyay

As a member of ‘Indian Cultural Delegation’, he toured Soviet Union and East European countries like Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia.

Hidişel River

Hidişel River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Iezeru River

Iezeru River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Joaquín Albarrán

Named with American urologist John Kelso Ormond (1886–1978); also known as "Gerota’s syndrome", after Romanian anatomist and urologist Dimitrie Gerota (1867-1939).

Joseph Franz von Goez

Joseph Franz von Goez (born 28 February 1754, Sibiu, Romania) was a lawyer, artist, illustrator and portraitist active in Vienna in the mid-18th century.

Mânza River

Mânza River can refer to two different tributaries of the Iapa River in Romania

Măru River

Măru River may refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Moara Dracului River

Moara Dracului River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Mociar River

Mociar River may refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Mogoș River

Mogoș River may refer to one of the following rivers of Romania

Neptun

Neptun, Romania, resort town on the southeast Black Sea coast of Romania

Nicolae Leon

Nicolae Leon (1862-1931) was a Romanian biologist of world renown.

Pârâu Crucii

Pârâu Crucii may refer to several places in Romania

Pentru Voi

Fundatia Pentru Voi (Pentru Voi Foundation) from Timişoara, Romania was established in 1995 as a Foundation for supporting people with intellectual disabilities.

Pintii River

Pintii River may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Râul Bisericii

Râul Bisericii can refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Râul Crucii

Râul Crucii may refer to the following rivers in Romania

Roman governors of Lower Moesia

This is a list of Roman governors of Lower Moesia (Moesia Inferior), in the modern states of Bulgaria and Romania (Dobruja).

Sărmaș River

Sărmaș River may refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Social fund

However, a Social Fund also exists in Romania, a country that has recently joined the EU, as well as in many other Eastern European countries.

Starčevo site

The culture of Starčevo is connected with other cites from Balkan and middle Europe where they use the term Starčevo-Keres-Kris culture in Hungary and Romania cites to symbolize the union of three close culture: culture of Starčevo, culture of Kereska and culture of Kris all of them located on the region of today southeast Hungary, Serbia and Romania.

Targus

:Targus is occasionally seen as a translation for the Târgu or Tîrgu regions in Romania.

Untu River

Untu River may refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Valea Carelor River

Valea Carelor River may refer to one of the following rivers in Romania

Valea Fetii River

Valea Fetii River can refer do one of the following rivers in Romania

Valea Frumoasă River

Valea Frumoasă River may refer to one of the following rivers in Romania


2008 Men's Water Polo Olympic Qualifier

The tournament was held at the "Ioan Alexandrescu" Pool, newly built in Oradea, Romania from March 2 to March 9, 2008s.

2010 Men's European Volleyball League

In the final four tournament, the semi-final matches featured Portugal and Spain defeating Romania (3–2) and Turkey (3–0), respectively, to produce a rematch of the 2007 final.

2013 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival

The 2013 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival was an international multi-sport event held between 17 and 22 February 2013, in Braşov, Romania, with some of the events also held in Râșnov, Predeal and Fundata.

Administrative divisions of Romania

After modern Romania was formed in 1859 through the union of Wallachia and rump Moldavia, and then extended in 1918 through the union of Transylvania, as well as Bukovina and Bessarabia (parts of Moldavia temporarily acquired by the Habsburgs, 1775–1918, respectively the Russian Tsars, 1812–1917), the administrative division was modernized using the French departments system as an example.

Alexander Philadelpheus

He received numerous honors including, being named Knight of the Royal Order of the Saviour and Knight Commander of the Royal Order of George I, Knight Commander of the Bulgarian order of Saint Alexander, Knight Commander of the Order of the Rumanian Crown, Officer of the French Order of the Legion of Honor, Officer of the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau and Knight of the Spanish Order of Fealty.

Alro Slatina

In September 2005, Alro bought from Balli Group 67% of Alum a Romanian company based in Tulcea that produced 540,000 tonnes of alumina in 2006 for around US$ 9 million.

Battle of Temesvár

When he sent for more munitions, Bem did not know that Dembiński moved the spare munitions to Lugos (now Lugoj, Romania), so Bem gave the order to Kmety to move forward on the left flank.

Belene Nuclear Power Plant

Concerns regarding the construction of the plant have mainly been felt in nearby Romania, with articles in the newspapers such as Cotidianul, România Liberă and Ziarul even going as far as comparing the project with Chernobyl despite a new generation of VVER reactors is to be used, and not the cheaper graphite-moderated RBMK series like Chernobyl's.

Beverley Daurio

Her short fiction has been published in Canada, Australia, the United States, Romania, and England, and her poetry, reviews, and literary essays have been widely published (including The Globe and Mail, Books in Canada, The Malahat Review and many other venues.

Borislav Stevanović

Born in Titova Mitrovica, Stevanović played club football in Yugoslavia, Spain and Romania for Radnički Niš, Mérida, Rad, Zemun, Universitatea Craiova and BASK.

Carabus hungaricus

The majority of its populations inhabit calcareous sandy grasslands from the Deliblat (Serbia: Deliblatska Peščara) throughout the Banat (Serbia, Romania) and sandy areas in Hungary along the Danube River all the way to Vienna (Austria) and South Moravia (Czech Republic).

Casco Schützhelme

Casco Schutzhelme based in Bretnig-Hauswalde, Germany, is a protection headwear producing company from Germany which has two production sites located in Bretnig-Hauswalde and Satu Mare, Romania and is specialised in producing helmets and safety glassess.

Cemetery

The Merry Cemetery in Săpânţa, Romania has extravagantly decorated grave markers with original epitaphs.

Colentina

The name Colentina can refer to three places in Bucharest, Romania.

Devilish Presley

In November 2008 the band toured Europe again including a debut gig in (Romania) in the capital (Bucharest).

DGIA

Direcţia Generală de Informaţii a Apărării (General Directorate for Defense Intelligence) is Romania's military intelligence agency, subordinated to the Ministry of National Defense.

Ectoedemia klimeschi

It is found in eastern and south-eastern Europe, where it is especially common in the Danube basin, from western Germany to Romania.

Elena Cernei

In 1961, she was made Artistă Emerită (Honoured Artist) of the Republic of Romania and in 1999 received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the National University of Music Bucharest for her contributions to the field of musicology.

Eugen Nae

Eugen Gheorghe Nae (born 23 November 1974 in Periș, Romania) is a Romanian former footballer.

Galați steel works

The idea of building a large steel works in eastern Romania, with access to the Danube and/or the Black Sea, was first discussed in 1958 at a plenary session of the ruling Romanian Workers' Party.

Gaston Paris

He contributed largely to the Histoire littéraire de la France, and with Paul Meyer published Romania, a journal devoted to the study of Romance literature.

Gheorghe Vrânceanu

Gheorghe Vrânceanu (June 30, 1900, Valea Hogei, Lipova, Bacău County – April 27, 1979, Bucharest) was a Romanian mathematician, best known for his work in differential geometry and topology.

Greek-Catholic Church in Bocşa

The Greek-Catholic Church in Bocșa is a church in Bocșa, Sălaj, Romania.

Horaţiu Pungea

Horaţiu Eugen Pungea (born 18 February 1986, Luduș, (Mureş), Romania) is a Romanian rugby union footballer.

Igor Klipii

He studied law and history at the "Ion Creangă" State University in Chişinău and international relations at the National School of Administration and Political Science of Bucharest (Romania) and the European Institute of High International Studies in Nice (France).

Internet in Romania

According to a top made by Bloomberg in 2013, Romania is ranked 5th in the world and 2nd in Europe in terms of internet connection speed, being surpassed by Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan, while the United States is only the 14th.

Interoute

Interoute's offices: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, plus a Network Operations Centre in Sofia and a Customer Service Centre in Prague and Luleå.

Ioana Olteanu

Ioana Olteanu (born 25 February 1966 in Drăcșenei, Teleorman) is a Romanian rower who has won three Olympic medals in the eights competition.

Mahmut Karaduman

His lieutenant, a Turk named Gabi Kaiat, lives in Bucharest and handles transshipments on the Romanian end.

Nicolae Dărăscu

He traveled extensively and lived in the south of France (Toulon and Saint-Tropez, 1908), to Venice (1909), in Romania (to Vlaici, Olt County, 1913, and in Southern Dobruja - Balchik, 1919).

Paddyfield Warbler

It is a rare vagrant to western Europe although there are small breeding populations along the western shores of the Black Sea around the border between Bulgaria and Romania.

Peceneaga River

Peceneaga River can refer to the following rivers in Romania

Petru Dumitriu

After school in Romania, Dumitriu studied philopsophy at Munich University with a Humboldt scholarship, but his studies were interrupted in 1944 when Romania changed sides in the Second World War.

Petya Miladinova

She has played in "Thessaloniki conspirators," "In the Moon Room", "Confusion", "That's absurd," "The Importance of Being Earnest", etc. and participated in numerous theatrical performances of festival projects in countries of Europe such as Hungary (Budapest and Szeged), Georgia, Uzbekistan (Tashkent), Russia (Yaroslavl) Italy (Urbino and Rome), France (Avignon) and Romania (Iași).

Pinus cembra

Pinus cembra, also known as Swiss pine, Swiss stone pine or Arolla pine, is a species of pine tree that grows in the Alps and Carpathian Mountains of central Europe, in Poland (Tatra Mountains), Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Slovakia (Tatra Mountains), Ukraine and Romania.

Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013

Cezar represented Romania with the song "It's My Life", which qualified from the second semi-final of the competition and finished in 13th place in the final, scoring 65 points.

Sean Kane

Sean was one of the first Scottish actors to perform with Romanian actors at the Teatrul De Comedie in Bucharest Romania in their production entitled 'Home'.

Sila Puafisi

He was called up to Tonga for the 2013 Autumn Internationals against Romania, France and Wales.

Ștefan Iovan

On 25 March 2008 he was decorated by the president of Romania, Traian Băsescu with Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" — (The Order "The Sportive Merit") class II for his part in winning the of 1986 European Cup Final.

Stere Gulea

Stere Gulea (born 2 August 1943 in Mihail Kogalniceanu village, Constanţa County) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter.

Techint

Companies owned by the Techint group through Tenaris include: Siderca and Siat (Argentina), Confab (Brazil), Tamsa (Mexico), Algoma (Canada), Dalmine (Italy), Silcotub (Romania) and has production facilities in the US and a joint venture with NKK (Japan), holding 51% of NKK shares since 1999, making it the first Japanese steel company in foreign majority ownership.

Valentin Porcișteanu

Before running in the Romanian National Rally Championship, Valentin Porcisteanul competed in the Romanian Hill Climb Championship, obtaining two podiums in Abrud Hill Climb 2003 (3rd place, young drivers' classification) and Brasov Hill Climb 2003 (3rd place, Class N1.6).

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In 2008 Valentin Porcisteanu stepped into the top class of the Romanian National Rally Championship, competing with a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII and finishing 7th in the Overall ranking and 4th in the Mitsubishi Lancer Cup.

Zalman Kornblit

Bercovici, Israil, O sută de ani de teatru evriesc în România ("One hundred years of Yiddish/Jewish theater in Romania"), 2nd Romanian-language edition, revised and augmented by Constantin Măciucă.

Zamir Gotta

He is best known as the traveling companion of American chef Anthony Bourdain in his Travel Channel TV show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, when they traveled to Uzbekistan, Russia and Romania and later in the U.S. Rust Belt, Ukraine, and Kansas City.